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Turkey denies Prime Minister's alleged remark on Israel

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Turkey's foreign ministry denies the Prime Minister said anything about Israel while he visited the scene of Turkey's worst ever mining disaster

ANKARA - Tanju Bilgic, spokesperson for the Turkish foreign ministry, issued a statement Saturday dismissing allegations that Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had uttered inappropriate remarks about Israel to a protester during his visit to the scene of the mining disaster in Soma, western Turkey.

Bilgic condemn those who asserted these baseless claims saying "These allegations are preposterous.”

On May 13 in Soma in the province of Manisa a deadly mining incident left 301 miners dead. The cause of the disaster has yet to be identified, but it has been mooted that an electrical fault, which resulted in an explosion and fire, is responsible.